by Playfuls Staff |
22nd April 2006
Advancing the vision of mobility while developing real-world applications, Nokia and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announce the opening of the Nokia Research Center Cambridge. The joint research facility, a collaboration between Nokia [more] Research Center and MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), brings researchers and scientists from MIT and Nokia together to develop high-impact research to create the state-of-the-art in communications technologies.
The center is currently focusing its research on several projects, each part of a larger vision where mobile devices become elements of an "ecosystem" of information, services, peripherals, sensors and other devices. These projects revolve around enhancing people’s lives and productivity by enabling more intuitive interaction between individuals, machines and environments, and range from developing the underlying computer architecture to leveraging and extending the Semantic Web. Although not commercially available today, projects like those underway could likely become real-world applications within the next decade.
Specific projects include:
Project Simone addresses new ways to interact with your mobile device primarily using speech.
MobileStart provides a framework for task-oriented applications that interact via written language on the mobile device.
MyNet/UIA develops a way for different users to easily and securely connect various devices to each other and across the Internet.
Asbestos explores the use of new operating systems mechanisms for information flow control to prevent private information from being inadvertently shared or maliciously exposed.
SwapMe develops a platform for Semantic Web applications that are policy, preference, and context aware.
ComposeMe provides mechanisms for verifying interoperability of Web services.
Armo explores new design methodologies and languages to enable the development of high-performance, energy-efficient hardware for mobile devices.
Located five minutes from CSAIL’s headquarters, the Nokia Research Center Cambridge will have approximately 20 researchers from MIT and 20 researchers from Nokia. Joint projects will be managed under the direction of a joint steering committee, and Dr. James Hicks from the Nokia Research Center has been named director of the Nokia Research Center Cambridge. Arvind, Johnson Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at MIT, will be the program manager for MIT/CSAIL.
